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[Helen]

Hello,
I've registered!  
Have only recently researched my Hunter ancestors and found WW1 KIAs and RTAs IKIN and WEISS.
Would you like me to email these details to you ?
Several IKIN graves are to be found in France, also WEISS and DARK.
All these brave men (& boys really) were from Dungog, Clarence Town, Maitland.
Congratulations for "putting it all together" in their memory.
Lest We Forget
Helen Woodward
Yarrowyck  (Uralla)  New England  

[diggerdave]

Hello Helen.
Thanks for your message.
I have the following details for the Ikins and Weiss's:

739 Private Edward Hercules Ikin, 26 year old Horse Trainer. Single of Clarencetown
Next of kin: Edward Ikin, Father, Clarencetown
Enlisted 19/02/15; embarked at Sydney aboard A32, Themistocles on 12/05/15.
Final unit: 17th Infantry Battalion
Final Rank: Corporal
RTA: 31/08/16

36th Infantry Battalion 4th Reinforcements
2335 Private George Edward Ikin, 22 year old Farmer, Single of Bandon Grove via Dungog
Next of kin: Mrs Rose Ikin, Mother, Bandon Grove via Dungog.
Enlisted: 01/06/16; embarked at Sydney aboard A30, Borda on 17/10/16.
Final Unit: 34th Infantry Battalion
Died of Wounds 01/10/18   
Buried: France, Doingt Communal Cemetery Extension, Grave LII.A.8.

1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade 14th Reinforcements
11147 Weiss, Erle Victor
Bombardier, Labourer, Single, Glendon Brook Via Singleton, enlisted 15/08/15
Embarked Sydney aboard RMS Osterley on 15/01/16
Final Unit 1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade, Bombardier,
Killed 09/08/18 France. Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres Grave LV.G.3

1st Infantry Battalion 3578a Weiss Frederick Alfred   Private 23 Labourer Single Anna Bay
25/07/15 Sydney A32, Themistocles 05/10/15 53rd Infantry Battalion
Private Killed At Fromelles 19/07/16 France V.C. Corner, Australian Cemetery Panel 9

19th Infantry Battalion 6th Reinforcements 2743 Weiss Frederick Henry
Private 24 Wheeler Single Seaham Number 2, Newcastle
H H Weiss, Father, Seaham Number 2, Newcastle   18/07/15 Sydney A14, Euripides 02/11/15
19th Infantry Battalion Private 15/04/17 France Noreuil Australian Cemetery F.25

Do you have any photos of their graves?